The Remaining Feasts

The Remaining Feasts

Date: Dec. 13, 2021

Passage

Leviticus 23:26-44 (ESV)

26 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27 “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD. 28 And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29 For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. 30 And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31 You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”

33 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD. 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 36 For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.

37 “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, 38 besides the LORD’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.

39 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40 And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. 41 You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43 that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”

44 Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 23:27

“Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD.

God commands his people to keep the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) as a time the nation gathers before God as one and repents sincerely their known and unknown sins. The Lord commands them to deny themselves and bring a sacrifice to God. This was a time when they realized collectively that they had sinned and took responsibility for each other’s sins before God. They were not to work, but spend the day in worship and prayer. We need to take responsibility for our nation’s sins, confess them before God, and repent sincerely asking his forgiveness and mercy.

The Feast of the Tabernacles (Sukkot) was a time of remembering how the Lord had cared for them for 40 years in the wilderness. They were to celebrate this feast after they finished the work of the harvest. They were to cut palm branches and wave them, rejoicing in God’s love, protection, and provision. They were to live in temporary shelters to remember their life in the wilderness after God brought them out of 400 years of slavery in Egypt.

Verses 37-38 teaches them to keep these festivals by bringing to God burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, freewill offerings, and vow offerings. A life of grace is marked by thanksgiving and a giving spirit. Let’s be such giving, sacrificial people.

Prayer: Prayer: Father, thank you for your grace, protection, provision, and your mercy to forgive.

One Word: One Word: Commemorate God’s grace

God Delivers Us from Evil

Micah 2:1-13

Key Verse: 2:12

  I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
    I will gather the remnant of Israel;
  I will set them together
    like sheep in a fold,
  like a flock in its pasture,
    a noisy multitude of men.

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